Syria: An uncivil war?

Virtually every major war we fought and won upon foreign soil, ridded another country of an unwanted occupier.

Now, we have become the occupying force in the Middle East, standing upon the very lines which divide denominations in a holy war older than the very country we founded.

We say we want to spread democracy, yet our leaders routinely refuse to engage in diplomacy as a world effort.

We often act alone even when the U.N. asks us to remain uninvolved. Misinformed and unprepared we jump headlong into yet another religious conflict, planning only to model a new government after our own.

We, as a nation, need to remember the very foundation upon which this country was founded.

We would've never stood for it if a foreign government had tried to change the course of our nation's birth when we were in the beginning stages of winning our own freedom. Nor would we have accepted interference during our own Civil War; such deep-seated conflicts can only be resolved from within. True peace only comes with a willingness to accept diplomacy through trial and error.

Government can never be something that is imposed if it is expected to work, because in the end, it is the people who truly decide how they want to be ruled. And that, my friends, is the true meaning of democracy.

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Syria: An uncivil war?

Virtually every major war we fought and won upon foreign soil, ridded another country of an unwanted occupier.